an English diary: Nov 11, 2010 Today is Nov.6th, I began to write an English diary for the first time. This morning I went to take part in the oral part of Shanghai's Sernior Translation Test. And ruined it. Mum waited for me out of the exam site. And after 8:30 I finished the exam, we passed by a supermarket next our fleg. We bought lots of daily things there. Dad's arranged for grandma's funeral today, so he's not at home, no one cook for mum and me. We two bought some really unhealthy food as for lunch. I begin to think that if dad doesn't cook anymore, mum and I will be either pigs or refugees, sooner or later. As time passed by , I am in Grade3 in my University study now, and until now I started to realize that the way I treated English was wrong. I used to think it only a tool in communicating, and my standard in good mastering it is to use the simplst words and express the basic meanings, but now I found that the point in evaluating somebody's real ability in using a foreign language is not "the simplist words, the vogue meaning" but to express your intention as specific as you can, just like what you do in using your motherlanguage. And as for me, there's still a long long way to go. To tell the truth, I always thought my English was good, but after today I understanded the mocking meaning in professers' eyes, I am not blindly confident any more. As I am a traditional Chinese young lady (I don't know if 'girl' s still a proper title for a 20 year old female), for me, life's long, but the time I can pursue my dream without any distrubing from outside is short. And I think most people are the same with me. I spent lots of time every day in school library, studying mechanical theories, and also learning a second language, German. And my collage mates too. Chinese students learn hard, maybe most westerns know that. Cause there are so many people in our country, and only by intensive competetion can we finally get good jobs, like working for the top 500 companies or something like that, who knows. OK, now I have nothing to say any more. Thanks for reading my English diary today, and I hope you, the one siting in front of the computer, will have a nice day today. And a nice future.